It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

Shining through tears like April suns in showers that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances and so when weve finally had enough we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you its shut for good.

I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.

You never fall in love by yourself, love captures you. Love comes to you when you don't need it really, and it comes to an end when you need it the most.

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

So many people are exploiting the name Picasso - and, in a way, even the estate is doing it.

The hardest part of skating is the ice.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.

Sooner or later, The Rock's going to get tired of that empty space on his mantle where an Oscar should be, and that's when I'll get the phone call for the buddy movie that finally makes his career.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.

February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.

Ive seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling Ive felt all its favours and found its decay.